EDIT: Note, these installation steps had some potential problems. See my post #7 below for the corrected steps.

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I wanted to use Compiz, though it isn't included with Fedora any more. I searched around to see how I could install it on F17, and couldn't find much info. So after a bit of tinkering, I managed to get it working with a fresh F17 install. This is what I did, and the result I got:

Everything installed except compiz-fusion, which complained about conflicting with the plugins-main for some reason.

3.) At this point, it looked like compiz would only work with boost and boost-devel version 1.47.0, but not with 1.48.0, which came with F17. So I made links for some of the boost modules, to get compiz working with the newer version.

4.) After rebooting, GDM gave me a new session login option: “Classic GNOME with Compiz.” And once I logged in, I had basic compiz functionality, and was able to configure most things with ccsm.

For some things though, I had to log back out, and log in through a regular “GNOME” session in Forced Fallback Mode to configure... such as creating a new bottom panel, or to create new panel shortcuts and applets. Unfortunately, a few of the applets didn't work, such as typing break and volume icon in the system tray. If anyone figured out a way to get these applets working, please let me know.

Also, I didn't install beryl, or any themes, but I have my desktop cube with wobbly windows, conky, etc.